Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

Like Snow She, then, like snow in a dark night, Fell secretly. And the world waked With dazzling of the drowsy eye, So that some muttered ‘Too much light’, And drew the curtains close. Like snow, warmer than fingers feared, And to soil friendly; Holding the histories of the night In yet unmelted tracks.

Benedicto: May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds. May your rivers flow without end, meandering through pastoral valleys tinkling with bells, past temples and castles and poets’ towers into a dark primeval forest where tigers belch and monkeys howl, […]

Certainties are arrived at only on foot.

Outdoor Hum For Snowy Weather The more it snows (Tiddely pom), The more it goes (Tiddely pom), The more it goes (Tiddely pom), On snowing. And nobody knows (Tiddely pom), How cold my toes (Tiddely pom), How cold my toes (Tiddely pom), Are growing.

The proper rewards are not simply tacked on to the activity for which they are given, but are the activity itself in consummation.

O Captain! My Captain! O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done; The ship has weather’d every rack, the prize we sought is won; The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting, While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring: But O heart! heart! heart! O the […]

There was no point dedicating myself to besting the rival suitors. Unlike them – superior to them – I knew her real worth; I spent my time looking over my shoulder for Odysseus.

In Search of Cinderella From dusk to dawn, From town to town, Without a single clue, I seek the tender, slender foot To fit this crystal shoe. From dusk to dawn, I try it on Each damsel that I meet. And I still love her so, but oh, I’ve started hating feet.

The Square Root of Two cannot be expressed as a ratio between two integers; that is it is an irrational number. Proof Let us assume the converse that the Square Root of two can be expressed as the ratio of two numbers a and b. In that case there must be an a and b […]

Of course I don’t believe in it. [pointing to horseshoe on his office wall] But I understand that it brings you luck whether you believe in it or not.

The North Ship Legend I saw three ships go sailing by, Over the sea, the lifting sea, And the wind rose in the morning sky, And one was rigged for a long journey. The first ship turned towards the west, Over the sea, the running sea, And by the wind was all possessed And carried […]

A gentleman is a man who can play the accordion but doesn’t.

If we don’t change direction soon, we’ll end up where we’re going.

The Journey of the Magi A cold coming we had of it, Just the worst time of the year For the journey, and such a long journey: The ways deep and the weather sharp, The very dead of winter.’ And the camels galled, sore-footed, refractory, Lying down in the melting snow. There were times we […]